🎣 How To Play Will's Gone Fishin'
Catch fish, find treasure, finish all 6 quests before the sun sets!
🗣️ Talk To Captain Will
Captain Will is your fishing guide. You can say any of these out loud:
| To do this | Say |
|---|---|
| Move your boat | "go north" · "move south" ·
"east" · "west" up = north · down = south · left = west · right = east |
| Drop your line | "start fishing" · "fish" · "cast line" |
| Pull your line in | "stop fishing" · "stop" |
| Hear your score | "score" · "what's my score" |
| Ask what just happened | "what happened" |
| Ask for help | "help" · "what should I do" |
| Play again | "play again" · "new game" · "restart" |
| Leave the game | "go home" · "exit game" · "back to game center" |
| Say yes to Captain Will | "yes" · "yeah" · "sure" · "go ahead" |
| Pause the game | "pause" · "pause game" |
| Keep playing | "resume" · "unpause" · "keep playing" |
| Pick your bait | "use spinner" · "use live bait" · "use leader-line" · "use the old boot" |
| Set your depth | "twenty feet" · "three fathoms" |
🎮 Buttons On Screen
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| 🎣 GO FISHING | Starts the game and drops your line — one press |
| 🛑 STOP | The same button while fishing — pulls your line back in |
| N · S · E · W | The big triangles around the water. Move your boat |
| Transcript | Bottom right. Shows everything Captain Will says |
| ☰ | Top right. Pause, Home, Leaderboard, and Help |
🐟 How A Turn Works
- Press GO FISHING or say "start fishing".
- Wait for a wiggle — something bites on its own.
- See what you caught in Your Catch.
- Move to new water and cast again!
🌊 Reading The Water
The seafloor has four zones, and the right bait and depth matter:
| Zone | Depth | Best bait |
|---|---|---|
 Kelp bed | Medium | Live bait |
 Surf zone | Shallow | Spinner or leader-line |
 Rocky bottom | Deep | Spinner or leader-line |
 Sandy bottom | Shallow | Live bait |
🕳️ Mystery Find: The Hole
Every round hides one lucky spot — usually under the kelp bed or the rocky bottom. Find it and your catches there get bigger — and the longer you keep casting in that exact spot without moving away, the bigger the multiplier grows. Ca-ching!
⭐ Your 6 Quests
Do them in order. The blue banner always shows your quest and a clue.
| # | Quest | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🎣 Catch a fish! | +5 |
| 2 | 🐠 Catch 3 fish! | +8 |
| 3 | 💰 Find treasure! | +12 |
| 4 | 🐬 Find the dolphin! | +15 |
| 5 | 😤 Catch 4 in a row! | +20 |
| 6 | 🧜 Find the Mermaid! | +30 |
You can never fail a quest, and quests are never timed. Finish all 6 and the game keeps going — keep fishing until time runs out!
🔥 Combos — Be Brave!
| In a row | Your points |
|---|---|
| 3 | Worth double |
| 5 | Worth triple |
| 7 or more | Worth four times |
🌊 What's In The Water
| Good catches | 🐟 Fish +3 · 🦐 Shrimp +3 · 🦀 Crab +4 · 🐠 Tropical Fish +5 · 🦑 Squid +5 · 🐙 Octopus +6 · ⭐ Starfish +6 · 🐬 Dolphin +8 |
|---|---|
| Treasure! | 👽 Alien Base +10 · 🏴☠️ Pirate Ship +12 · 💰 Sunken Treasure +15 · 🧜 Mermaid +20 |
| Ouch | 🌿 Seaweed −1 · 🦔 Sea Urchin −1 · 🪼 Jellyfish −2 · 🐡 Puffer Fish −3 · 🐋 Killer Whale −3 |
| Nothing | ⚓ Empty hook — costs you nothing! |
| Old boot junk | 🛞 Old Tire · ⚓ Rusty Anchor · 🕸️ Tangled Netting · 🗑️ Garbage — worth 1 to 5 points, picked fresh each catch, whenever you're fishing with the old boot |
| Watch out! | ⛈️ A storm can blow your boat to a new spot · 🦈 A shark bite takes a bite of your score and your bucket — never everything, and your boat gets knocked to a new spot too |
🏆 Winning
The round ends when the timer reaches 0:00 — finishing all 6 quests doesn't end the game early, so keep fishing for more points! Your score is saved to the leaderboard under your name automatically — you never have to type it.